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26 February 2008 – UNAMID Joint Special Representative, Mr. Rodolphe Adada, today visited the town of Silea in Western Darfur to personally assess the situation on the ground following recent attacks in the area. He met with…
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27 February 2008 -- UNAMID’s Formed Police Unit (FPU) from Bangladesh has conducted its first long distance patrol aimed at testing their operational capacity and enhancing the visibility of the UNPolice in the area. The…
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15 February 2008 -- With 135,000 internally displaced persons, the city of Gereda in South Darfur houses the highest number of IDPs in Darfur – a region in which some 2.5 million are displaced. After reports of a steady…
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3 March 2008 -- In an effort to strengthen cooperation and trust between the UN and the local police and population in Darfur, the UN Police working for UNAMID conducted the first confidence-building patrol in areas…
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1 March 2008 -- The Darfur Ceasefire commission (CFC) held its first meeting in 2008 with the absence of one major party. On 29 February, representatives from the Government of Sudan (GoS) and rebel movements came together…
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6 March 2008 -- "The Secretary-General welcomes the initiative to establish a group of “Friends of UNAMID” which will focus on supporting the deployment of the AU-UN peacekeeping operation in Darfur. The first meeting of the…
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9 March 2008 -- Knowing that the months from December through February can be cold, UNAMID troops donated their own warm clothes and blankets to the internally displaced people (IDPs) of Mallit, a small town north of the city…
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A dusty road, partly tar, partly dirt; two government check-points where Sudanese soldiers appear familiar with the United Nations (UN) internal forms for movement of personnel; and an endless landscape of huts made out of…
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The dust road leading from Al Mazroob to Um Suona has been wiped away. It has been a year since the Government of Sudan, with the support of the local Ma’alia tribe, launched an offensive to recover the area from the Minni…
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Amina Mohammed, 15, is one of three girls in her family at Al-Salam Camp of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), just outside Nyala in South Darfur. One of her many chores is to fetch firewood for the family.
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11 March 2008 -- Recent fierce fighting in Sudan’s devastated Darfur region makes it clear that the international effort to protect the population is at dire risk unless the parties are pressured to negotiate a peace, at top…
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2 July 2008 -- Dmitry Titov, the UN Assistant Secretary-General in charge of the Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions (OROLSI) in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) in New York recently paid a working…